国际服务贸易发展新趋势及我国的对策选择

国际服务贸易是世界贸易的新增长点。近十年来，国际服务贸易增长超过国际货物贸易增长，呈现迅猛发展的态势。本文分析了国际服务贸易发展的新趋势和我国服务贸易发展的现状，在此基础上提出了发展我国国际服务贸易的对策。     

进一步做好辽宁省招商引资工作的思考

为进一步做好辽宁省对外招商引资工作，实现对外招商引资工作新的突破，促进辽宁省经济社会又好又快发展，结合多年来的实际工作经验，对辽宁省招商引资工作现状进行分析，指出存在的问题，提出创新和改进招商工作方式、研究地区产业布局和国家利用外资政策、研究重点目标国家和地区、转变政府职能增强服务意识、改变地区政府部门的工作状态、培养过硬的招商队伍等意见和建议。     

2008～2009年海峡两岸经贸关系发展形势分析

2008年,是海峡两岸经贸关系发生巨大变化的一年,是两岸经贸关系发展的一个历史性转折点.在两岸关系出现重大积极变化的形势下,中断近十年的海协会与海基会恢复协商,先后举行两次重要会谈,达成六项两岸经贸交流与合作协议,努力了近30年的两岸直接"三通"基本实现,两岸经贸关系发展进入一个新的时期.与此同时,受国际金融危机冲击,海峡两岸贸易增长放慢,台商对大陆投资有所减缓,大陆台资企业经营面临转型升级的困难加大.2009年,两岸经贸协商继续进行,并有新的突破与发展,但两岸贸易与台商对大陆投资仍面临较大压力.     

A gender comparison of HIV and drug use across the rural-urban continuum

Despite the central role of women drug users in escalating AIDS statistics, there is still a limited number of studies that examine the roles of gender and drug use type in HIV seroprevalence. This lacuna in the research literature has led to significant gaps in researchers' understanding of how and to what extent women may differ in their drug-using and HIV risk behaviors compared to their better-studied male counterparts. This study, derived from a sample of 3,555 out-of-treatment drug users residing in three South Florida urban and rural communities, attempts to compare the drug usage and needle and sexual risk behaviors of male and female drug users that put them at risk for HIV infection. The overall seropositivity rate for women drug users was 26.5% compared to 19.5% for their male counterparts. Results of multivariate analyses indicate that females compared to males were 1.4 times more likely to be HIV seropositive. Risk behaviors associated with this elevated seropositivity include living arrangements, homeless status, drug use, sexual trading behaviors, and history of STDs. Furthermore, there was a strong linear relationship between drug use type and HIV seroprevalence among women drug users. Compared to those who were neither crack smokers nor injectors of illicit drugs, those who were crack smokers only were 2 times more likely to be HIV seropositive, while those who were both crack smokers and injectors were 5 times more likely to be HIV seropositive, and those who were injectors only were 6 times more likely to be HIV seropositive. These findings indicate that among women, drug abuse and its associated risk behaviors, increase the vulnerability of this population for HIV and thus render them an extremely important priority population on which to focus HIV prevention and public health efforts and programs.     

Governing the transnational organic cotton network from Benin

In this article, we attempt to conceptualize the historical development and the governance structure of the transnational organic cotton network from Benin. We aim to discover how the organic cotton production‐consumption network is governed locally and internationally. Existing bodies of literature on international agricultural production networks, in particular the Global Value Chains (GVC) perspective, focus on economic dimensions, but find it difficult to incorporate the sustainability dimension. We favour widening the concept of GVCs beyond economics by acknowledging and including environmental rationalities and the representatives of their interests, not as external elements, but rather as co‐governing or co‐structuring factors (or actors) of sustainable value chains. Our findings reveal that beyond the traditional producer versus buyer dualism, intermediate stakeholders, namely transnational and local environmental NGO networks, are instrumental in the construction, maintenance and transformation of the organic cotton network. It is also apparent that farmers' leaders play an important role in mediating and (re)building trust among organic farmers, though they exert insufficient vertical power in the organic cotton network to control it.     

出口贸易与污染排放、治理投资关系的实证分析

利用我国1995-2009年的相关经济数据,实证分析我国出口贸易与污染排放、治理投资之间的关系。得到结论如下：出口贸易变化是污染物排放变化的格兰杰原因;出口贸易对污染物排放的结构效应为正,技术效应为负,但对不同的污染物,规模效应不尽相同;不同污染物的治理投资对出口贸易影响也不同,但是总的治理投资的增加对出口贸易有利。     

韩国劳动力市场灵活稳定性状况研究

根据国际社会提出的灵活稳定性概念对韩国金融危机以后劳动力市场的灵活稳定性状况进行分析。韩国政府采取的许多改革措施没有使劳动力市场的稳定性得到提高,反而使灵活性不断下滑。社会保障体系的不完善及工会组织的政治化是造成韩国劳动力市场灵活稳定性无法提高的主要原因。     

How to Teach by the Unit Method

Using data from the National Center for Educational Statistics research spanning fifteen years, researchers examined the impact of national educational policy implementation on the role of social studies in elementary schools. Specifically, with the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2007 and the continuation of federal-mandated testing of English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in grades three through five, researchers sought to understand how policy decisions to extend testing to science affected teacher decisions in regard to instructional time allocations for core subject areas of ELA, mathematics, science, and social studies in elementary schools. Results of this quantitative study offer large-scale evidence of the declining role of social studies in an era in which testing is clearly linked to subject-area importance. Findings provide an overview of the national scope of testing and the ramifications for social studies in elementary schools. Researchers conclude that curriculum standardization, accountability, and high-stakes testing have had adverse affects on social studies time allotments in comparison to tested subjects.     

Emerging,attracting and challenging: how some of the world's largest media companies perceive their challenges and opportunities in China

China's emerging media market, despite having heavy entry regulations, attracts foreign companies that suffer from saturation and stagnation in their home markets. This paper seeks to provide an understanding of how some of the world's largest media companies perceive their opportunities and challenges in China by discussing research interviews with company managers. It analyzes the findings of the interviews in the light of existing conceptualizations, which suggest that in emerging and opening media markets, cultural barriers to the success of imported media increase with the waning interest in foreign media and the increasing strength of the domestic media industry. The article suggests that Chinese audiences will become more inwardly oriented in their media tastes and that if the Chinese media market opens further in the future, the existing advantages that the Western media companies appear to have over their Chinese counterparts will have diminished by that time.     

港航城市之竞合关系及其法律规制——以上海建设国际航运中心为切入点

长三角区域内外各大港航城市在合作与竞争问题上已经展开并将长期存在一系列博弈,但是这种博弈目前还处于低效和失范状态。这很大程度上源于背后的内在体制冲突、地方政府的盲目绩效冲动以及立法的缺失和滞后,需要《中华人民共和国宪法》、《中华人民共和国立法法》、《中华人民共和国反垄断法》对其做出一一回应。通过有效的法律规制引导合作向深度发展,变对抗的竞争为合作的竞争,确保港航城市合作与竞争在法制统一原则下进行,才能够最大程度地在良性竞合关系中实现国际竞争力的提高,并推动区域内外经济的协调发展和全国性统一大市场的形成和完善。